INVITINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does invitingly mean? 

• INVITINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb INVITINGLY has 1 sense:

1. in a tantalizing manner

  Familiarity information: INVITINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVITINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a tantalizing manner

Synonyms:

invitingly; tantalizingly

Context example:

she smiled at him tantalizingly

Pertainym:

inviting (attractive and tempting)

 Context examples 

The whole of his lank cheek was invitingly before me, and I struck it with my open hand with that force that my fingers tingled as if I had burnt them.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

No one was in sight, the smooth road sloped invitingly before her, and finding the temptation irresistible, Jo darted away, soon leaving hat and comb behind her and scattering hairpins as she ran.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He crooked the arm next to her—crooked it very slightly and with secret tentativeness, not invitingly, but just casually, as though he was accustomed to walk that way.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Shut your eyes and hold out your arms," she said invitingly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Jo laughed at that as she had not done for many a long day, and patted the sofa invitingly, as she said in a cordial tone, The old pillow is up garret, and we don't need it now.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He spoke so kindly, and opened Hans Anderson's fairy tales so invitingly before me, that I was more ashamed than ever, and went at my lesson in a neck-or-nothing style that seemed to amuse him immensely.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)